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Asked if she prepared for the interview with Couric, Palin said “not so much, but it was supposed to be a light-hearted thing.”

“After the first segment, it didn’t go well. It didn’t go very well, I was annoyed by her badgering,” Palin said.

The former Alaska governor accused Couric of trying to trap her on the issue of abortion, asking her “12 different times on my position on abortion and the morning after pill.”

Palin also said she grew annoyed by Couric’s presence at campaign rallies. After one particular rally when she left the rope line “fired up,” Palin recalled that she turned around to see Couric and thought, “There is the perky one again with the microphone.”

Palin indicated that she was offended when Couric asked her what newspapers and magazines she reads, saying that she took the question “in the context of ‘do you read?’”

“Obviously I have over the course of my life,” Palin said. “I’m a lover of books and magazines and newspapers.”

Palin resisted attacking the McCain aides she has spent much of the last year sparring with, though she did criticize unnamed McCain staffers who she claimed were too focused on her weight.

“Of all the things to worry about while the McCain campaign numbers – we were kind of taking a nose dive and Obama was soaring. We should not have spent a lot of time worrying about what I was eating,” she said.

When asked about the denial of her request to deliver a speech on Election Night, following the GOP loss, Palin said she was disappointed “that we did not take one last opportunity to remind all Americans that united we will move forward, and that’s what I wanted to talk about.”

On a more personal note, Palin admitted that she waited a period of time before telling her husband Todd that their youngest child would be born with Down syndrome.

“It took about three weeks before we connected,” Palin said in describing the talk. Her husband “probably had a better reaction than I did when he first heard the message,” Palin said.

Asked about Levi Johnston, the father of her infant grandchild, Palin at first said she did not want to talk about Johnston because “so much of the discussion with Levi has to do with my baby boy grandson.”

But Palin then backhanded the young father for not seeing “the baby much while he has been on his media tours.”

The ex-governor went on to say that “some of the things that [Johnston] is doing is kind of heartbreaking,” specifically pointing to his photo shoot with Playgirl magazine.

“I call that porn,” Palin said of the magazine spread.

Palin insisted though that she continues “to hope for the best and pray for Levi.”

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In Sarah's book there is a lot of policy detail. Will there be any thing written about that? Or will the libbies just go after her personally? A good looking woman is always a threat to the less fortunate.

Let's see how the libbies treat Palin here, how far will they go the disparage her.

Hey, we are all hoping she runs -

President Obama will be able to get so much done if he is has eight years to do it in. He could probably fix all of the incompetent republican blunders and messes they left behind after their eight years of so called leadership.

When asked about her plans for 2012, Palin said that a presidential run in two years is “not on my radar screen right now.”

TeamPOLITICO: Nov. 16, 2009 - 2:29 PM EST

Palin – who resigned as governor of Alaska in June – said that she left office “because I wasn’t going to run for a second term” and that she felt she had already become a “lame duck.”

So that means, yes, she is considering 2012. She's just going the Obama route and starting the campaign 4 years before the race instead of just two. Might as well see how much buzz she can generate and how much money she can raise while the political climate is cool, relatively speaking.

I just hope she doesn't stay in perpetual campaign mode and actually lead the country if she were to get elected.

The woman has more class in their little finger than you have total. A woman who has made it without her husband's coat tails. Why do strong, smart, beautiful, ethical, conservative women scare you so. You can't measure up?